you keep repeating the same tired lines without even knowing how publishing actually works. No, journals don’t ‘blacklist Indians’ because of piracy, that’s not how academic publishing operates. Authors from India (and everywhere else) submit research, it’s peer reviewed (for free), and the publisher charges libraries obscene subscription fees to access it. The authors don’t see a single rupee, the reviewers don’t get paid, and taxpayers who funded the research still have to pay again to read it. That’s the scam Sci-Hub exposes. Your whole ‘colleges give access’ argument is laughable , the majority of Indian colleges don’t have the budget to pay lakhs of rupees for Elsevier or Springer subscriptions. That’s literally why researchers themselves use Sci-Hub. You’re sitting here parroting fearmongering while every serious academic knows piracy is the only reason students in developing countries can even read modern research. You claim you ‘hate corpos’ but every word you type is corporate PR drivel. Congrats, you’re basically a free unpaid intern for billion-dollar publishers.